Corporal John Beresford Bryson Infantry Battalion 1 to 12 Reinforcement Dec 1914 to shipped out on the from Sydney on the HMAT Runic

World War I soldiers in trenches during write letters home. Life in the trenches was summed up by the phrase which later became well-known: "Months of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme terror." (Netherlands Nationaal Archief) in Atlantic Monthly